2019 and 2020 Utah Aerial Lidar Acquisition

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AGRC has awarded Aero-Graphics, Inc. and The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. to acquire 20,958 square miles of aerial lidar elevation data. The lidar will be a combination of USGS Quality Level 1 (QL1), 8 points per square meter and Quality Level 2 (QL2), 2 points per square meter depending on the area. The 2019 QL2 project covering portions of Kane County, Utah was acquired last fall, is going through USGS Quality Assurance, and is scheduled to be completed by June 30, 2020. The 2020 acquisitions have begun and will continue throughout the year. These project areas will be completed in 2021 and project deliverables are scheduled to be completed by June 30, 2021.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Map 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) are also acquiring 13,681 square miles of aerial lidar in Utah this year. The lidar will mostly be QL2, with a few small areas as QL1. The acquisitions will begin in the fall of 2020 and project deliverables are scheduled to be completed by June 30, 2022.

You are welcome to download the boundaries for all the project areas as a shapefile.

The Project Areas Include

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Bears Ears National Monument

Capitlol Reef National Park

Arches National Park

Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

Sections of the Green and Colorado Rivers

Portions of the Greater Sevier Watershed

Portions of the Manti-La Sal, Fishlake, Ashley, Wasatch-Cache, Uintah, and Dixie National Forests